This season’s collection, Hot Rod, draws inspiration from the work of Swiss photographer Karl Heinz Weinberger whose gritty images depicted the stylishly disaffected Zurich teenager’s dubbed halbstarke or ‘half strong.’ In Weinberger’s evocative images the trappings of American rebel youth are cut and re-mixed; denim jeans and jackets intricately customized; belt buckles formed out of horse-shoes or the head of Elvis; zips replaced with screws, bolts and chains. These were adolescents playing tough guy using the classic iconography of rebellion with their own conspicuous twist.